Endocrine Abstracts

Cushing’s syndrome is a fascinating clinical challenge, both for diagnosis and management. Despite being a rare disease, it has many causes consisting of a broad variety of tumors. These tumors can arise from different tissues (i.e. pituitary, adrenal, lung…) varying from small benign and even non detectable tumors, to large aggressive cancers. The secretory spectrum of these tumors is broad qualitatively and quantitatively. It results from the molecular alterations...